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A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the wonderful…A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the vvonderfull…
A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the wonderful conception, birth, and life of Christ, who in the fullness of time became man to satisfy divine justice, and to make reconciliation between God and man. Preached to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, by that godly and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Richard Sibbes. D.D.A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the vvonderfull conception, birth, and life of Christ, who in the fulnesse of time became man to satisfie divine iustice, and to make reconciliation betweene God and man. Preached to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, by that godly and faithfull minister of Iesus Christ, Richard Sibbes. D.D.
London: printed by Edward for John Rothwell, 1638London: printed by Edward for Iohn Rothwell, 1638
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1As CHRIST hath two natures in one person, so many persons make up one mystical CHRIST, so that our persons are wonderfully near to Christ. The wife is not nearer the husband, the members are not nearer the head, the building is not nearer the foundation, then Christ and his Church are. And therefore comfort our selves in this. Christ is Emanuel, God with us in our nature. And will he suffer his Church to want, that he hath taken so near to himself? can the members want influence, when the head hath it? can the wife be poor, when the husband is rich? whatsoever Christ did to his own body, to his humane nature taken into the unity of his person, that he will do in some proportion to his mystical body.
1As CHRIST hath two natures in one person, so many persons make up one mysticall CHRIST, so that our persons are wonderfully neere to Christ. The wife is not neerer the husband, the members are not neerer the head, the building is not neerer the foundation, then Christ and his Church are. And therefore comfort our selues in this. Christ is Emanuell, God with us in our nature. And will hee suffer his Church to want, that hee hath taken so neere to himselfe? can the members want influence, when the head hath it? can the wife be poore, when the husband is rich? whatsoever Christ did to his owne body, to his humane nature taken into the unity of his person, that hee will doe in some proportion to his mysticall body.
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1I will show you some particulars. He sanctified his natural body, by the Holy Ghost, and he will sanctify us by the same spirit. For there is the same spirit in head, and members. He loveth his natural body, and so, as never to lay it aside to eternity. And loveth his mystical body now in some sort more, for he gave his natural body to death, for his mystical body. And therefore as he will never lay aside his natural body, he will never lay aside his Church, nor any